Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 66 83
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,944 1,933 2,764
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 3.93% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.37% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 966 1,993
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -24 1,703 £75,000 +3.45% 771
UK excluding London -47 1,042 £65,000 -7.14% 442
Work from Home -16 893 £65,000 -7.14% 363
London -14 759 £85,000 +3.03% 437
North of England -33 368 £69,310 -3.72% 130
South East 0 275 £65,000 -7.14% 149
North West -47 200 £75,000 +8.70% 71
South West -46 119 £56,250 -17.91% 45
Midlands -56 97 £67,500 +1.89% 58
North East +18 88 £65,000 +18.18% 22
Yorkshire -28 80 £60,000 -16.66% 37
West Midlands -30 70 £80,000 +14.29% 35
Northern Ireland -21 56 £72,500 +45.00% 18
Wales -20 54 £70,000 +34.62% 12
East of England -13 44 £60,100 -3.84% 12
Scotland -56 31 £60,000 -23.87% 21
East Midlands -57 26 £64,000 +6.67% 23
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 4

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (1.70%) Confluence
2 24 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.82%) CMS
3 16 (0.82%) IIS
4 14 (0.72%) Apache
5 10 (0.51%) Camunda
6 9 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.41%) JBoss
7 8 (0.41%) WordPress
8 7 (0.36%) nginx
8 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.26%) Drupal
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.10%) Shopify
7 1 (0.051%) Eikon
7 1 (0.051%) RMDS
7 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (51.80%) AWS
2 835 (42.95%) Azure
3 334 (17.18%) GCP
4 264 (13.58%) Serverless
5 234 (12.04%) GitHub
6 188 (9.67%) SaaS
7 167 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
8 126 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 98 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 98 (5.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 91 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
13 79 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
14 68 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
15 66 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
16 64 (3.29%) Azure AKS
16 64 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (2.67%) PaaS
18 48 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.29%) Broadband
2 24 (1.23%) Network Security
3 15 (0.77%) MQTT
4 13 (0.67%) DMARC
5 11 (0.57%) DNS
6 8 (0.41%) AMQP
6 8 (0.41%) Firewall
6 8 (0.41%) Internet
6 8 (0.41%) VPN
7 7 (0.36%) DHCP
7 7 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.31%) RFID
8 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.26%) HTTP
10 4 (0.21%) LTE
11 3 (0.15%) Modbus
12 1 (0.051%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.051%) PSTN
12 1 (0.051%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (15.53%) MongoDB
2 221 (11.37%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (10.29%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (8.23%) Elasticsearch
6 123 (6.33%) MySQL
7 102 (5.25%) SQL Server
8 88 (4.53%) Relational Database
9 64 (3.29%) Redis
10 50 (2.57%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.59%) Big Data
13 22 (1.13%) RDBMS
14 19 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.62%) Db2
15 12 (0.62%) DTS
16 11 (0.57%) Pinecone
17 10 (0.51%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 234 (12.04%) Git
2 187 (9.62%) GitLab
3 157 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 61 (3.14%) TeamCity
5 58 (2.98%) JIRA
6 54 (2.78%) JUnit
7 43 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 33 (1.70%) Mockito
9 32 (1.65%) Cypress.io
10 31 (1.59%) Claude Code
11 25 (1.29%) Maven
12 23 (1.18%) CircleCI
13 21 (1.08%) Selenium
14 19 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 18 (0.93%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.67%) Vite
17 12 (0.62%) JMeter
17 12 (0.62%) Postman
17 12 (0.62%) Spock
18 11 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 460 (23.66%) Finance
2 345 (17.75%) Social Skills
3 194 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 163 (8.38%) Banking
5 122 (6.28%) Retail
6 118 (6.07%) Law
7 113 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 107 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
9 73 (3.76%) Legal
10 61 (3.14%) Financial Institution
11 52 (2.67%) Back Office
12 36 (1.85%) Marketing
13 29 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.44%) Legal Technology
15 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.08%) Advertising
16 21 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.93%) Games
18 16 (0.82%) Front Office
19 15 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 738 (37.96%) Developer
2 467 (24.02%) Senior
3 351 (18.06%) Software Engineer
4 291 (14.97%) Lead
5 263 (13.53%) Architect
6 205 (10.55%) .NET Developer
7 172 (8.85%) Senior Developer
8 150 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 144 (7.41%) Java Developer
10 135 (6.94%) Java Engineer
11 113 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 109 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 103 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
14 96 (4.94%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.22%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
17 69 (3.55%) Lead Developer
18 59 (3.03%) Lead Software Engineer
19 55 (2.83%) Technical Leader
20 53 (2.73%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (27.21%) .NET
2 422 (21.71%) React
3 414 (21.30%) Node.js
4 316 (16.26%) Spring
5 296 (15.23%) Spring Boot
6 282 (14.51%) RESTful
7 255 (13.12%) REST
8 238 (12.24%) Kafka
9 232 (11.93%) ASP.NET
10 213 (10.96%) .NET Core
11 206 (10.60%) AngularJS
12 204 (10.49%) Vue
13 192 (9.88%) ASP.NET Core
14 109 (5.61%) Blazor
15 107 (5.50%) ASP.NET Web API
16 97 (4.99%) .NET Framework
17 92 (4.73%) HTML
18 86 (4.42%) CSS
19 79 (4.06%) gRPC
20 72 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 579 (29.78%) Cloud Native
2 335 (17.23%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 96 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 83 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
7 55 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.37%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.31%) Over-the-Top Content
10 41 (2.11%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.59%) e-Learning
13 27 (1.39%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
15 24 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (0.98%) Mobile App
17 17 (0.87%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.33%) Linux
2 45 (2.31%) Windows
3 21 (1.08%) Unix
4 18 (0.93%) CentOS
4 18 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.21%) AIX
6 4 (0.21%) Debian
6 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.051%) Android
7 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,016 (52.26%) CI/CD
2 924 (47.53%) Agile
3 689 (35.44%) DevOps
3 689 (35.44%) Software Engineering
4 554 (28.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 450 (23.15%) Mentoring
6 425 (21.86%) Containerisation
7 401 (20.63%) Event-Driven
8 397 (20.42%) AI
9 391 (20.11%) Test Automation
10 389 (20.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 364 (18.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 357 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
13 272 (13.99%) Scrum
14 252 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
15 250 (12.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 236 (12.14%) TDD
17 217 (11.16%) Clean Code
18 215 (11.06%) Coaching
19 200 (10.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 629 (32.36%) Java
2 544 (27.98%) C#
3 486 (25.00%) SQL
4 467 (24.02%) Python
5 436 (22.43%) JavaScript
6 357 (18.36%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.12%) Go
8 53 (2.73%) Scala
9 49 (2.52%) Ruby
10 46 (2.37%) C++
11 42 (2.16%) PHP
12 39 (2.01%) Bash
13 26 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.29%) Bicep
14 25 (1.29%) Rust
15 23 (1.18%) C
16 15 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 15 (0.77%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.62%) Groovy
18 11 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 249 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 175 (9.00%) Degree
3 169 (8.69%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.34%) AWS Certification
6 61 (3.14%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (1.13%) CISSP
9 19 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.46%) MBA
12 9 (0.46%) PhD
13 8 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.36%) CISM
15 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.26%) GIAC
15 5 (0.26%) ISACA
15 5 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (9.98%) QA
2 68 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 41 (2.11%) GDPR
4 39 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.49%) WCAG
6 23 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 20 (1.03%) NIST
8 16 (0.82%) NCSC
9 15 (0.77%) GRC
10 10 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.31%) Data Quality
13 6 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.26%) PSD2
14 5 (0.26%) SEPA
15 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 558 (28.70%) Docker
2 26 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
4 4 (0.21%) NDS
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 590 (30.35%) Kubernetes
2 349 (17.95%) Terraform
3 112 (5.76%) Ansible
4 101 (5.20%) Grafana
5 60 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.23%) Argo
7 18 (0.93%) Puppet
8 16 (0.82%) Kibana
9 13 (0.67%) Cilium
9 13 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.21%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) Podman
13 2 (0.10%) MIIS
13 2 (0.10%) Nagios
13 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.10%) Rancher
14 1 (0.051%) Istio
14 1 (0.051%) logstash
Vendors
1 309 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.42%) Google
3 61 (3.14%) Oracle
4 45 (2.31%) Typelevel
5 37 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.49%) Splunk
7 24 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 22 (1.13%) IBM
9 20 (1.03%) AppDynamics
10 19 (0.98%) Databricks
11 13 (0.67%) Adobe
11 13 (0.67%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.62%) Okta
12 12 (0.62%) OneLogin
12 12 (0.62%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.62%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.57%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.51%) SAP
14 10 (0.51%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.36%) Cisco